Rockets embarking on a new mission with Harden and Westbrook

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In the week leading up to the Houston Rockets' training camp, pictures of Russell Westbrook and James Harden — squared up face-to-face, smiling ear-to-ear, hands in boxing gloves — started popping up online. A fun moment, and a cutesy, accidental commentary — look at us, the picture said, the best of friends, so tight we can mock the idea that our pairing is combustible — resembling a much more orchestrated parody-turned-reality from 2013, when Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard put their fists up with Mike D'Antoni, who coached those Lakers and these Rockets, wedged between them looking like Ghostface from “Scream.” Maybe Harden and Westbrook will succeed, the picture eventually lost to history, denying the internet its schadenfreude. There's a reason, after all, that these Rockets in particular would value the physical and mental stamina of MMA training.

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